Use symbols instead of text for commands

Asked Mar 03 '17 at 16:25

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Whenever I type a longer equation it gets unreadable very quickly. Is it possible to shorten the expression

\alpha(z,n)=\left( \sqrt{\frac{1}{2\pi i}} \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{z^k+n}{x^{2k}} \right)^n

by using characters in the latex code so that

\alpha shows as α
\sqrt{} shows as √{}
\frac{a}{b} shows as a/b (to spare brackets: a is in superscript and b is in subscript)  
\sum shows as ∑ (there is another sigma for using it as a letter Σ)
\infty shows as ∞

Meaning without super-/subscript we would have

α(z,n)=\left( √{1/2πi} ∑ k=1 ∞ z^k+n/ x^{2k} \right)^n.

asked Mar 03 '17 at 16:25

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http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87257/unicode-in-the-equations-pros-and-cons/87268#87268 – David Carlisle Mar 03 '17 at 16:29
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http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124984/how-does-xetex-typeset-math-symbols-which-are-input-as-unicode/124989#124989 – David Carlisle Mar 03 '17 at 16:29
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Welcome to TeX.SE. I use Emacs with preview-latex. It allows in-document preview of such expressions. – Philipp Imhof Mar 03 '17 at 16:30
You can use package unicode-math with a unicode engine, e.g., using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX instead of PDFLaTeX. Even unicode sub- and superscripts are possible. – Schweinebacke Mar 03 '17 at 17:33
WinEdt has a package which displays Greek letters and a number of math symbols, while saving the file as traditional code. – Bernard Mar 03 '17 at 17:39
You can also use package newunicodechar for the math characters. – Schweinebacke Mar 03 '17 at 17:44

Use symbols instead of text for commands

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